Esxi 5.1, Observed IP ranges = none
Hello Guys, I have an HP ML110 G7 running Esxi 5.1 (Customize VMware ESXi Image for HP ProLiant Servers) and i have installed another one ethernet adapter (TP-LINK TG-3468). However, the tp-link nic...
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Hi All, on my home lab I have installed SSO (as if now only). I choose local Database during the setup.Now I have installed MS SQL 2008 R2 Management Studio. I am trying to open the MS SQL database and...
View Articlelocation of ks.cfg during %post
I need to reference my ks.cfg file during %post. Does anyone know where i can find it without doing a wget to my pxe server?
View ArticleAdded SATA drive can't login to vSphere
ESXI 5.1 So I tried to add a SATA drive to run local backups and, after bootup, my vSphere client would not login. It kept on giving me a 'server took too long to respond,' error. I was able to log...
View Articleesxi 5.1 snmp error
Hi I have many 5.1 esxi servers licenced in a vcenter, some work with snmp some dont, the error I get is: Agent not responding, connect uds socket(/var/run/snmp.ctl) failed 2, err= No such file or...
View ArticleUnable to access file vmdk since it is locked
Hi guys I have a customer running vSphere 5 with ESXi 5.0.0 build 914586. On a datastore I have a template for W2K8R2SP1-Enterprise. When I try to deploy a VM from this template it states: "unable to...
View ArticleHow to map device-id from event log
I'm have an ESXi 5.1.0-799733 system which I administer using vSphere client. And there I get a log message :"Device naa.600605b00 ... afe6b. Performance has detoriated".Where can I find what device...
View ArticleConvert VM from ESXi to Workstation
I have VM on ESXi server I want to convert it to VMware Workstation installed on my PC.There is a way to do it?
View ArticleWhere to download VMware Update Manager
The ESXi 5.1.0 patch documentation (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2043968) describes that one can use VMware Update Manager to...
View ArticleHA Failover failed - sanity check on what I think happened?
We have a small 2 host HA cluster running 5.1. We have several vSwitches (management, VM Network, iSCSI) each with 2 pNICs assigned with the pNICs being spread across different physical cards in the...
View ArticleSNMP problem with ESXi 5 Update 1
We upgraded 6 of our HP BL460c blades to ESXi 5 Update 1 for Windows 8 and Server 2012 development. Everything is working OK except that I cannot SNMP monitoring to work on any of them. I have gone...
View ArticleUnable to ping Network
i have instaled esxi 5.1 with NIC card Intel PRO /1000 MT ,,,Installation was smooth and after assigning IP , unable to ping to the esxi boxany help
View ArticleESX 5.0 U1 hung on "Initilizing ACPI"
I have a whitebox I'm trying to install ESXi 5.0 U1 on that is getting hung on Initilizing ACPI. Is there a way to bypass this stage? Maybe with kernel options? I have tried acpi=off and noacpi options...
View ArticleHow to disable the screen saver?
On the console of ESXi the display dims from a nice yellow/grey to a dark and barely visible black. This happens in like a minute! So impatient! How can I disable or extend the timeout for this "screen...
View ArticleAbysmal Upload Speed in ESXi 5.1
I have been reading thread all over the Internet for two days and every discussion of this gets into the weeds and goes nowhere... and usually ends with "use Veeam", which doesn't seem to really work...
View ArticleWhy does VM Guest Memory Utilisation Differs Memory utilisation report in...
Hi All, I am tricked with the results seen from the Memory performance report in VM Guest Server (Windows 2008 R2); taken with the Perfmon Counters are no way related with the performance reports I got...
View ArticleApple Mac OS X 10.8 on ESXi 5
Hello all I just installed the free version of VMware vsphear hyperviser 5.1. I currently show that I am runningVMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-1021289. I am not sure of this is the most current patch because...
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Checking for patches or updates ESXi 5.1 (free)
Good Morning Support Community, I'm hoping that you can help me with a question, how can I check that i'm running the most up to date version of ESXi 5.1 on my home server? I tried installing the...
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Esxi 5.1 pci passthrough broken
I got a purple screen when I start up a vm with a pci device With Esxi5 was working fine. I tested it with 2 vm on different hosts ( but same hardware) i7 2600 32gb mb: dq67sw What can I try
View Articlesvmotion virtual mode rdm to different lun
I have a vm that has 4 virtual disks. 2 of them are vmdk files and I have smotioned them to my destination iscsi lun. I still have 2 that are rdm virtual mode disks that I need to move out of the...
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